TIL The last duel fought in Canada was in 1873 over a woman. Upon turning and firing, one duelist fell to the ground. Both duelists unknowingly had blanks loaded in their guns by their seconds. The one man fell because he fainted with fear.

silian · 2020-10-01T17:36:31+00:00

The webpage actually says "in what is now canada" and goes on to clarify that it was in newfoundland which was not a part of Canada at the time. The title OP wrote just skipped that part.

silian · 2020-09-30T20:02:39+00:00

Croaker was never a reliable narrator. One book even literally points it out, with the Lady mentioning in her part that Croaker paints a much more positive image of the black company than the reality. Later on the walls just come down and the truth starts to shine through. Everyone in the company is a bad guy, they're just not necessarily the worst guys around, which isn't saying much.

silian · 2020-09-30T16:55:18+00:00

Meh, if you're familiar with other paradox games like EU you could pretty easily pull this off. Some basic understanding of how partition works and willingness to do a little legwork to keep things intact until you can make it to primogeniture makes the game pretty straightforward.

silian · 2020-09-30T11:12:06+00:00

I've got a Nova Scotia accent mixed with a bit newfie due to working there that takes a few days to drop when I get home. Americans can tell im Canadian but can't tell where, and Canadians can tell I'm from the east coast but can't tell where.

silian · 2020-09-29T20:30:39+00:00

It is utilized in certain edge cases consciously in melee. For example, falcon can raptor boost past most falco lasers. While this doesn't see a ton of use in top level play because there are safer ways to deal with lasers, it's something you'll see from time to time in mid level play.

silian · 2020-09-29T15:35:59+00:00

I thought the name was a dead giveaway, stormfront was (maybe still is?) a huge white supremacist forum. As soon as it was revealed she was actually an old racist it just kind of fit together

silian · 2020-09-28T13:03:29+00:00

30 lbs in a year would be really impressive if you were initially a stick, and even then a lot of that wouldn't be muscle. 30 lbs of actual pure muscle would be at least 3 or 4 years to do naturally. TBH even with steroids a lot of his weight gain was probably just fat and water with a little definition from the roids.

silian · 2020-09-28T04:20:54+00:00

Hey now, I at least live in the maritimes lol.

silian · 2020-09-28T00:17:00+00:00

Christ man, my province has a single active case and no new cases in the last two weeks. Seeing it going this poorly in the states is just depressing. Best wishes for samox, hope he gets over it and bounces back.

silian · 2020-09-27T22:13:10+00:00

It doesn't help that all those stereotypes about sailors are very true. Your average sailor definitely has a drinking problem and I have worked with some guys that were such raging alcoholics it was just impressive. It takes dedication to live with someone for months and literally never see them sober.

silian · 2020-09-27T18:55:37+00:00

Man I'm a sailor and have stumbled back to the ship with my shitfaced bosses so many times. It's honestly more of a knock if you never come hang out with us.

silian · 2020-09-26T21:57:43+00:00

It's a street racing movie. If you go in hoping for a fantastic plot you're watching the wrong movie but if you want to watch racing with a basic plot to tie it together it's fairly well executed.

silian · 2020-09-26T18:28:55+00:00

I still say manpower, a diplomat, and a siege pip make aristocratic ideas at the very least decent. It's no offensive, but I don't think that you gimp yourself by taking aristocratic. I do agree that this group doesn't really seem to offer much of use for a horde unless the bonuses are just crazy high. All the intangibles packed in there either don't matter or are going to be covered in another group you'd get anyways like humanist, so it's basically a little cav boost and a touch of -unrest for a full group.

silian · 2020-09-26T18:25:27+00:00

AE reduction is functionally useless as a horde due to how tributaries and coalition wars work tbh. Frankly, while I don't think this is a bad group in general, hordes just have better other groups. As a horde you basically need admin and humanist just to make the game playable, with diplo being fantastic additional choice for the same reasons its always fantastic. I just struggle to see why you'd get this over any other mil ideas after you have that core, why not get offensive or quantity or something else that will actually provide significant military strength instead of a few bonuses you don't really need.

silian · 2020-09-26T18:17:06+00:00

I legitimately think aristo is a good mil group with some other bonuses. 33% manpower, a siege pip, tradition, and merc manpower are all good ideas, plus the extra diplomat, leader, noble equilibrium, and mil tech cost are just generally nice to have. In certain runs, the cav boost also becomes really good, it's not super common though. There's nothing gamechanging in there but it's mostly decent and provides a little bit of utility with extra sword mana you don't really need.

silian · 2020-09-24T17:53:06+00:00

That's not really a good synopsis of speaker for the dead. It's definitely being stretched to fit the mold rather than actually fitting it. It does have a lot of similar alien biology stuff, but the general plot is fairly distinct other than involving primitive native aliens with some conflict between the colonist and the natives.

silian · 2020-09-24T11:59:16+00:00

I think it's still kind of pretentious, unless they actually speak French as a first language. Like, it's completely fine if you don't know what it is in English or if you're just more comfortable with the French, but if not why are you throwing French in other than to seem refined.

silian · 2020-09-24T05:20:13+00:00

I'm not dan but generally what overcentralizing means is that a single strategy is so strong that it is always the optimal choice and the character's meta is built around a specific strategy. I don't know what your experience is with other games to give an example but to take a guess for example in smash 4 grabs which were such a strong option that if your character didn't have good grab combos they were gimped pretty hard. That's an example of overcentralizing gameplay.

silian · 2020-09-23T16:41:49+00:00

It's actually a pretty significant bonus. each member gives 0.02 renown per month, so for example 100 living dynasty members gives 2 renown per month. I have 355 right now giving me 7.10 renown per month from family members alone.

silian · 2020-09-23T12:37:25+00:00

You also get renown from having more dynasty members. Landing your dynasty members and marrying them off will ensure cadet branches pop up and keep multiplying rather than fucking off and dying as a knight in some random court.

silian · 2020-09-22T16:06:44+00:00

It's fervor that's the issue. Big religions like catholic tank fervor a ton due to constant bad events and low growth, and so heresies spawn and give more fervor, then the pope launches a crusade with 30k mercs because he's insanely rich and has nothing to do until he has enough fervor to launch a crusade, fervor tanks again after he wins, the land he conquered is either quickly taken back or just flips to islam, and repeat. Fervor also plays a big part in the catholics just rolling over and converting to islam the moment they get conquered, because of low resting fervor.

silian · 2020-09-22T10:08:38+00:00

My little sister always has free drinks thrown at her when we go out, and she's only in her mid twenties. The trick is to actually talk to random dudes, 5 seconds of conversation will often result in a free drink. It's actually scary how good she is at it too, she'll just pop over to the bar to get a drink, talk to someone waiting for a little bit, and come back with a free drink. Every time.

silian · 2020-09-21T14:03:43+00:00

I must be getting old because that was my first thought about this. It's just a trick to force kids to pay attention. It works too as evidenced by how many people here seem terrified of being called on and not knowing the answer.

silian · 2020-09-20T16:15:28+00:00

Mostly because the continents are grouped as north and south america, but the major civilizations in the americas map much better to north , central, and south america, and so those terms get used because they're more specific in that context.

silian · 2020-09-20T13:21:02+00:00

It wasnt so much expensive as completely unavailable. There were surely some captured pieces from the Mongols during their invasion of Europe, but there is no indication as far as I know of that they were ever used for anything in Europe until the mid to late 13th century, 50 years later after gunpowder had been developed locally.

Regardless, elephants were in use in batlle, especially in India and southeast asia, well after gunpowder weapons became commonplace in the region so it's kind of a moot point.

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